Development, testing, and deployment of an air sampling manifold for spiking elemental and oxidized mercury during the reno atmospheric mercury intercomparison experiment (RAMIX)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7277-7284

  Finley, B D ^a   Jaffe, D A ^a,b   Call, K ^a   Lyman, S ^a   Gustin, M Sexauer ^c   Peterson, C ^c   Miller, M ^c   Lyman, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; HIGH PURITY WATER; INTERCOMPARISONS; LABORATORY TEST; MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS; OXIDIZED MERCURY; PERMEATION TUBES; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; WATER VAPOR;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; OZONE; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PUMPING; PURIFICATION; SAMPLING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER VAPOR;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; SENSOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER VAPOR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BROMIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEVADA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OZONE; WATER;

NEVADA; RENO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880116466     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304185a     Document Type: Article

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